Beth Revis Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.
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In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it's a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.
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Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
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I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
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I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.
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Poor leaders motivate those following them with false promises of promotions, success, and a great tomorrow but rarely deliver on those promises. Leaders who do this can be manipulative and often hold the goals and aspirations of their followers hostage in order to get them to comply.
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Failure makes the success worth it.
